Fr. Bob Moran greets Isidro and Emmanuel Mejia, who traveled from Arizona to celebrate his
retirement after 50 years as a parish priest.

Heartfelt send-off for retiring priest
FR. BOB MORAN PRAISED FOR HIS COMMITMENT TO SOCIAL JUSTICE
By Daniel DeBolt

A

t a potluck dinner
with over 200 adoring
parishioners, Father
Bob Moran celebrated 50
years as an ordained Catholic priest last Friday, but also
said goodbye to a crowd that
lined up all evening to wish
him farewell.
There was no shortage

of praise for
the man, who
was ordained
a priest on
the same date
50 years ago,
June 13, 1964.
He is retiring
at age 75 and was honored
at a Mass on Saturday. He
first joined the local Catholic parish in the early 1980s,

which includes downtown’s
St. Joseph church and the St.
Joseph school on Miramonte
Avenue, where Friday’s dinner was held in the auditorium.
“He is the most wonderful
priest we have ever known,”
said Job Lopez, longtime church
member and community orgaSee PRIEST, page 13

he July 1 City Council
meeting, where Merlone
Geier hopes to get City
Council approval for its big San
Antonio shopping center redevelopment proposal, is quickly
approaching.
For over two years, the San
Francisco-based developer has
been pitching its plan for a
70,000-square-foot movie theater, 1,480 space parking garage,
a seven-story hotel, a pair of sixstory office buildings and new
ground-floor shops around a
public square designed with an
eye towards “place-making” —
all on a 9.9-acre portion of the
San Antonio Shopping Center
at the corner of San Antonio
Road and California Street. It
would replace the Ross, BevMo
and several small properties on
the corner, all of which Merlone
Geier now owns — except for the
Milk Pail market.
The project may not slide
through very easily. The potential consequences for the Milk
Pail market — which is facing
closure without an agreement to
lease parking spaces in the project
or a workable deal to relocate the

business— have drawn outcry
from numerous patrons of the
popular European-style open
air market. Meanwhile, a group
of residents concerned with the
city’s jobs-housing imbalance say
they will seek a referendum on the
project, putting it on the ballot for
voters to decide on — but only if
it is passed before a “precise plan”
is done in December. That plan
would consider larger needs in
and around the shopping center,
such as the need for park space,
bike and pedestrian access and a
school for the 600 kids expected
to move to the area.
The City Council is holding a
study session on the precise plan
June 24.
Merlone Geier’s Mike Grehl
told the Voice on Monday that his
company may pull the project if
it appears the referendum would
delay it, and would also halt its
efforts to help the Milk Pail.
Grehl said that pleasing the
referendum backers, who want
housing added to the project,
would mean delaying construction for two years so the staterequired environmental impact
report can be modified to study
See SAN ANTONIO, page 11

Fight and flight: the new approach to school shooters
SCHOOL DISTRICT INCLUDES NEW OPTIONS IF THERE IS GUNFIRE ON CAMPUS
By Kevin Forestieri

A

fter the school shooting
at Sandy Hook, as many
as 74 school shooting
incidents have occurred in the
United States, most recently in
Seattle and Oregon. With the
spike in shootings, local school
districts are looking at new ways
to prepare and react if there is an

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active shooter on campus.
A few weeks ago, Mountain
View Whisman School District
board members unanimously
approved a newly revised emergency response policy if there is
a shooter on campus. According to Kathi Lilga, executive
assistant to the superintendent,
the new response goes well
beyond the traditional “lock-

down” strategy, and suggests
teachers and students find ways
to flee the campus or, at worst,
defend themselves against an
attacker.
In a presentation to the board
titled “Run Hide Defend,” Lilga
explained that based on recent
school shootings, students taking shelter in a lockdown had
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shooting was a prime example:
the students did everything
“right” in a lockdown-only
response and it was one of the
deadliest shootings in U.S. history, with 20 students and 6

staff members killed.
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students do instead? In the
revised plan is a simple flow
chart. The first option is to
attempt a safe evacuation. If the
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An adult male pedestrian was struck and killed by a Caltrain
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Landlords to pay more
for displaced tenants
By Daniel DeBolt

room apartment in Mountain
View is $2,310.
he City Council voted
The council also voted to
Tuesday to require land- increase compensation for dislords to compensate a placed tenants. Previously tenlarger number of tenants who are ants would receive their full
evicted during renovations and deposit plus two months of their
redevelopments, and to increase current rent. Now, displaced
compensation to as much as tenants will receive the deposit
$13,000 per household.
plus three months of median
After hearing of more than a market rent, which would equal
few instances where tenants have $1,690 a month ($5,070 total)
been evicted from entire apart- for a studio apartment and
ment complexes to allow land- $3,390 a month ($10,170 total)
lords to renovate and raise rents, for a three bedroom apartment.
the council voted to significantly “Special needs” households
beef up the city’s tenant relocation with a senior citizen or disordinance that was first adopted abled member will now receive
in 2010. It remains the only an additional $3,000, up from
such ordinance in Silicon Valley. $2,154.
The City Council voted 5-1 to
“We are a small city with a big
adopt the changes, which member heart and we are causing this disJohn Inks opposed.
placement someMayor Chris Clark
what ourselves,”
was absent.
said council memA key change is a
ber Siegel, appar‘We are
raise to the income
ently referring to
causing this
limit for those who
the city’s land use
would qualify for
favoring
displacement policies
help, which was
office developpreviously set at 50
ment, adding to
somewhat
percent of the area
pressure on the
median income,
housing market.
ourselves.’
equal to $101,900
There was little
JAC SIEGEL
for family of four.
sympathy for the
Few households
growing number of
qualified at that
displaced tenants
level, so a raise to
from Don Bahl, a
80 percent of AMI
property manager
was approved Tuesday, which and developer who helped elect
doubles the number of qualified John Inks to council.
tenants in one particular down“People are saying, ‘It’s not
town complex where evictions my fault,’ but they are really
are taking place, said city planner suffering the consequences of
Linda Lauzze.
their freely chosen actions they
Council member Jac Siegel took earlier in life,” Bahl told the
moved to increase the income council.
limit to 100 percent AMI, but no
Inks said it would put a financouncil member seconded his cial burden on landlords wantmotion.
ing to renovate or upgrade their
The local chapter of the League properties, though Lauzze said,
of Women Voters supported rais- “I’m not sure the ordinance
ing the income limit to 100 per- would be a disincentive to doing
cent of the AMI, because “there remodeling or upgrading.”
is still a gap between what these
The ordinance applies any time
tenants can afford and market a landlord evicts four or more
median rent, particularly with tenants within a year. Environlarger units,” the group said in a mental Planning Commission
letter to the council.
members can be credited for
“Unfortunately at this point, 80 catching a possible loophole
percent AMI is also low income,” in a previous iteration of the
said council member Ronit Bry- ordinance, which would have
ant.
allowed landlords to get around
According to a city staff report, the requirement by evicting only
a household earning the AMI for three households at a time.
two people, $81,500, could afford
Email Daniel DeBolt
rent of $2,037. But median rent
at ddebolt@mv-voice.com
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Abigail gets advice on her rainforest project from camp aide Brittaney Chang at CSMA’s Enviromental
Music and Art class.

Full STEAM ahead for art classes
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TAUGHT THROUGH MUSIC AND ART AT CSMA
By Kevin Forestieri

S

chool may be out for the
summer, but some kids are
back in class and taking a
curious course at the Community School of Music and Arts:
environmental science taught
through music and art.
The class, which runs through
the end of June, shows that science and art are not mutually
exclusive, according to Hillary
Orzell McSherry, who teaches
the class and has a masters
degree in environmental policy.
The class is part of an ongoing
effort to bridge the gap between
STEM courses and the arts.

McSherry got the idea to create the class in Monterey when
she participated in a 2010 grant
program by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The goal of the program was to get art and music
teachers together to design a
curriculum that encourages
environmental stewardship.
McSherry said she designed
her course to to fit STEAM
— an acronym for science,
technology, engineering, art
and mathematics. STEAM is an
adaptation of the widely popular STEM fields that injects
some of the arts back into the
tech-focused curriculum.

One of the guiding principles in her curriculum was
to emphasize the gap between
policy changes and the social
change that adapts to it.
“It takes a while for people to
get used to it,” McSherry said,
explaining that people change
their habits based on personal
values on the environment
rather than by forceful changes
in policy or laws.
She started teaching the
course back in 2010 and tracked
kids through surveys to see if
they changed their personal
values. She said that the course
See CSMA, page 14

aria Schexnayder didn’t
think much of it when
the YMCA delayed registration for after-school daycare
by a few weeks. When she finally got the registration packet,
everything looked normal until
she got to the price. Rates had
jumped from $333 a month to
$572 — a 72 percent increase for
three days a week.
“The biggest issue I’ve had with

this fee increase is that there was
no notice or heads-up that this
was coming,” Schexnayder said.
Hundreds of families across
Mountain View who use the
YMCA “Kids Place” after-school
program, which works with
Mountain View Whisman elementary schools to provide onsite daycare, were hit with a
similar increase. The fewer the
number of days per week a child
is enrolled, the larger the fee
increase.

But the price hike won’t stick
around for long. A YMCA official contacted the Voice Wednesday and said prices will be significantly reduced because of the
outcry.
Dorothy Lin, a mother of two,
uses the program two days a
week. She saw her monthly fee
increase from $223 to $471 — a
111 percent increase over last
year. She said the pricing strucSee YMCA, page 14

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49er fans may seek parking in MV
FARMERS MARKET MAY HAVE TO MOVE DUE TO DEMAND FOR LIGHT RAIL LINK

ity Council members
spent a considerable
amount of time Tuesday
night wrestling with a potentially huge parking problem in
downtown Mountain View during events at the new Levi’s 49er
stadium in Santa Clara.
Thanks to expensive and limited parking at the stadium, city
officials expect 500 to 600 drivers will be seeking parking spots
in downtown Mountain View
before taking light rail to the
new stadium starting in August.
From the light rail station downtown, the Valley Transit Authority (VTA) is going to be running
80 trains to and from the events
on game days, instead of the
usual 20, while making limited
stops. As many as 3,400 Caltrain
riders are expected to make the
transfer to light rail in downtown
Mountain View as well.
The new stadium holds about
68,500 people, and VTA expects
to carry 10,000 people to events
on buses and light rail. The first
49er game at the stadium is set
for Aug. 17 and there will be a
total of 17 events by April of next
year.
City staff proposed that several
parking lots near the downtown
train, bus and light rail station
be reserved for stadium goers,
without the usual two-hour time
limits.
“Our belief is there are a lot of
unknowns,” said City Manager
Dan Rich. “One major concern is
if we charge a substantial amount
for parking in our lots it will
drive a lot of those cars into the
neighborhood, which we don’t
want to do.”
But council members weren’t
satisfied with that approach, voting 5-1 to more actively manage

the parking situation, potentially
charging for parking and enforcing time limits in neighborhoods.
Member John Inks voted no and
Mayor Chris Clark was absent.
Council members asked city
staff to come back July 1 with a
plan to charge for parking and
keep cars off nearby residential
streets. Some said that such time
limits might have to be extensive,
given how far some people are
willing to walk for free parking.
Council member Mike Kasperzak said the city needs to send
a message early on to stadium
users that “if you want to use
Mountain View as event game
staging, you need to pay.”
“I have a little bit different
take on this than staff,” said
Kasperzak, who led a shift away
from the recommendation Rich
supported. “I think Mountain
View is really being put upon by
the city of Santa Clara. I think
this could potentially have some
negative impacts on Mountain
View.”
Kasperzak said he thought the
easiest way is to have stadiumgoers use the city’s new paperless
online parking permit system
that has been directed at downtown businesses who want their
patrons or employees to be able
to park longer than the two-hour
time limits downtown. Others
said the city needed to hire someone to stand in parking lots and
take the fees. Either way, Kasperzak said parking fees should be
25 percent higher than whatever
Caltrain decides to charge at its
lot downtown.
City staff said it may take several months to see how stadium
goers settle on preferred ways for
getting to the stadium, which will
be hosting other large events, like
Wrestlemania, monster truck
rallies and Supercross racing.

“It’s just going to get worse,” said
council member Jac Siegel.
There was some concern about
stadium-goers drinking or having tailgate parties before the
game in downtown. Barbecues
and drinking alcohol won’t be
allowed, Rich noted. And while
drinking is allowed on Caltrain,
it won’t be allowed on light rail,
which will mean large bins will
be provided for people to dispose
of their drinks, city staff said.
There is also the significant
problem of finding a new place
for the Mountain View farmers
market, which has been held on
Sunday mornings at the Caltrain
and light rail parking lot for
many years. City Council members approved a plan to move
the market when stadium events
are in conflict on nine Sundays
though April 2015. It would be
held on a parking lot on Bryant
Street between California and
Mercy streets, where city staff say
there would be plenty of parking
in the Bryant Street garage and
under City Hall. But it would
have to be considered temporary,
as the lot may be redeveloped at
some point, Kasperzak said.
“It’s a large animal to move.
It’s the second largest farmers
market in the state of California,”
said Gail Hayden, director of the
California Farmers Market Association.
Farmers Market director of
operations Doug Hayden said
the parking lot would be large
enough for 160 stalls at the event,
which usually has 170 stalls
(some would be moved to the
street). He told several residents
who live directly behind the lot
that noise complaints would be
addressed immediately.
Email Daniel DeBolt
at ddebolt@mv-voice.com

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CUBBERLEY OPENS TO MV ARTISTS
The Cubberley Artist Studios Program is opening its doors to artists from Mountain View as
well as the rest of the Bay Area.
The program, previously limited to artists
living in Palo Alto, is accepting applications
through July 1 for a residency at one of 23 citysponsored studio workplaces at the Cubberley
Community Center at 4000 Middlefield Road.
Current CASP members are also permitted to
re-apply for a residency. Accepted applicants will
begin a four-year term in October.
The announcement comes at a time Cubberley
and Palo Alto city officials have begun developing a Cultural Cafe as well as events like arts
panels, workshops, lectures and film screenings,
according to the program’s press release. Officials
say they believe these additions will help enhance
the program. “With the visibility and accessibil6

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ity of the program raised, more members of the
Palo Alto community and beyond will get to
enjoy the Cubberley studios, meet the artists and
attend events,” said Rhyena Halpern, the community services department assistant director.
Artists in the program donate one work of art
for each residency to the city of Palo Alto’s Public
Art Program and perform fours hours of service
monthly.
Application information is available on the
Cubberley Artist Studio Program page on the
city of Palo Alto website at bit.ly/1lDfy8n.
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FOGGING FOR WEST NILE VIRUS
The Santa Clara County Vector Control
District is scheduled to do a mosquito fogging
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Abe-Koga to run for El Camino district
CITY COUNCIL MEMBER CAMPAIGNS FOR A SPOT ON LOCAL HOSPITAL BOARD
By Kevin Forestieri

I

tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a month before candidates can pick up their nomination papers, but Margaret
Abe-Koga is already booting up
her campaign for a seat on the
El Camino Hospital Healthcare
District board.
Two seats on the district board
are up for grabs this year. Both
David Reeder and Patricia Einarson have terms that expire in
December 2014, and while Reeder has not announced whether he
will run for re-election, Einarson
announced at a board meeting
that she will leave the board
when her term ends.
Abe-Koga has been on the
Mountain View City Council
since 2006, and served as vice
mayor in 2008 and mayor in
2009. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s served in public
office in Mountain View since
2000, starting as a a member
of the Human Relations Commission. She has also served
as various roles on the county
Board of Education, as well

as the vice-chair of the Valley
Transportation Authority.
As a council member, AbeKoga worked on the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general plan update and in 2010, the
council recognized Abe-Koga for
building â&#x20AC;&#x153;health and wellness
initiatives to promote healthy
living in a healthy community,â&#x20AC;?
according to a
resolution of
appre c i at ion
she received.
Her campaign
website says
that she helped
institute health
and wellness
Margaret
programs for
Abe-Koga
city employees
and the greater community.
During her time on the Local
Area Formation Commission,
or LAFCo, Abe-Koga said she
and the commission worked
as an oversight body for the El
Camino Healthcare District
that put out a â&#x20AC;&#x153;service reviewâ&#x20AC;?
for district improvements. She
said at that time, there was a

lot of confusion between the
healthcare district and the hospital, which has its own hospital
board made up of the same
members as the district board.
The healthcare district didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
even have its own website, which
further added to the confusion.
Abe-Koga recommended that
the district become more transparent in its actions, better explain
to the public what the taxpayerfunded healthcare district does
and where its money goes.
Abe-Koga said since the recommendation, the district has
done a good job alleviating the
problems, but the board has to
keep improving its accessibility
and transparency.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to be
accessible and listen to what
people have to say, and provide
services that reflect the needs of
the community,â&#x20AC;? Abe-Koga said.
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kickoff event Sunday, June 22, at
2 p.m. at Steinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beer Garden
with State Sen. Jerry Hill and
Assemblyman Rich Gordon.
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By Daniel DeBolt

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ountain View city
employees are mourning the loss of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
chief building official, Anthony
Ghiossi, who died June 10 after a
year-and-a-half long battle with
cancer. He was 49.
Ghiossi had worked for the city
of Mountain View for nearly two
decades, starting out as permit
technician at the building departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s front counter in 1991,
then became a building inspector
before leaving to work as the head
of Los Gatos building department
between 2004 and 2010, when he
returned to Mountain View as
chief building official.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was one of our great success stories,â&#x20AC;? said planning director Randy Tsuda. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He worked
his way all the way up. He was
tremendous person. He loved
Mountain View and was passionate about the community. And
he was full of energy.â&#x20AC;?
Ghiossi was a San Jose resident, was married to Deirdre
Boyle in 2003. They had two
sons, Caden and Shane, born in
2005 and 2008.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;He truly loved his wife and
two boys, he talked about them
all the time,â&#x20AC;? Tsuda said.
As building official, Ghiossi
and his team of inspectors were
responsible for making sure the
cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s buildings met building
codes and were safe â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the massive task of reviewing, checking
and approving building permit

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Anthony Ghiossi, a long-time
building department employee,
died after battling cancer.

applications and conducting
building safety inspections of
all kinds.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The building division does
24,000 inspections a year, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a
lot,â&#x20AC;? Tsuda, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And they process right around 7,300 building
permits a year. They are incredibly, incredibly busy. Anthony
ran a very, very efficient group.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of those things you never
think about. Buildings get built
and you assume someone is
inspecting it.â&#x20AC;?
Shellie Woodworth worked
directly under Ghiossi as development services coordinator.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a great boss and he
always thought about how what
he did affected his staff. He had
a big heart,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He ended
up being mentor more than anything, which is not something
you decide to be. People just start
looking to you for advice.â&#x20AC;?

Ghiossi was born in Fort Bragg
on Aug. 27, 1964, where was also
a standout basketball and baseball player in high school. He
studied engineering technology
at San Jose State University, was
an outdoorsman, a photographer and fan of the San Jose
Sharks hockey team, according
to his family. Tsuda says Ghiossi
talked about the Sharks so much
that he eventually attended a
game with him, and got hooked.
He also held numerous leadership positions in a nonprofit
trade association, the International Codes Council, including
as president.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was definitely a super
dad, he had two kids going 1,000
miles per hour at all times,â&#x20AC;?
Woodworth said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He really had
a good work-life balance and he
would remind his staff to have
the same work life balance. He
was really good in that respect.â&#x20AC;?
Tsuda also noticed Ghiossiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way
with people when he worked with
Ghiossi in Los Gatos, which is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a
community with a very demanding constituency. We would send
him out to a neighborhood meeting on a difficult construction
project and the feedback we got
was always fantastic.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was somebody who was
trying to leave this place a better
place than when he found it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a
safer place,â&#x20AC;? Woodworth said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;He always wanted to employ a
reasonable and fair approach to
the building code but also leave
things safe for everybody.â&#x20AC;?
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By Kevin Forestieri

M

ountain View police
raided a building on
Independence Avenue
Thursday night, June 12, on a
search warrant and seized over
800 marijuana plants. Three
adults were later arrested in
San Jose in connection with the
investigation.
At around 3 p.m. Mountain
View police entered suite B at 1132
Independence Ave., and seized
marijuana with an estimated
street value of $500,000, according to a Mountain View police
blog post. Police also seized illegal
weapons, some of them stolen,
including assault rifle and a number of handguns.
Marijuana grow equipment,
such as large industrial lamps,
fans and electrical equipment,
were also stripped from the
building.
Police searched two San Jose
residences in connection with the
Mountain View operation at 3
p.m. yesterday. In one residence
they located more firearms, over
30 pounds of dried and packed

marijuana and a
“honey oil lab,”
used to produce a
concentrated form
of marijuana,
according to the
blog post. Police
also found a toddler present in the
home and took the
child into protective custody.
In the other residence, police
found more illegal weapons,
methamphetamine and two military-grade “flash-bang” stun
grenades.
Three people were arrested during the San Jose search, including 33-year-old Semir Metovic,
32-year-old Tito Hernandez and
29-year-old Abby Rose. The
charges included possession of
marijuana for sale, a felon in
possession of a firearm, possession of a destructive device,
felony child endangerment and
manufacturing a controlled substance. Hernandez’s bail is set
at $385,000, and no bail had yet
been set for Metovic and Rose.
The building is in the industrial
part of Mountain View behind

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Costco, with a sign over the door
that reads “Monarchy Arcade
Game Restoration and Collector.”
Police said they did not know how
long the operation has gone on.
One witness, who works a few
offices away from the building,
said people in the church next
door could smell marijuana.
The drug bust was a joint
effort conducted by the Mountain View Police Department,
the Milpitas Police Department,
the San Jose Police Department’s
Bomb Unit, Mountain View’s
Crimes Against Persons, Gang
Suppression Unit and Youth
Services Units, the Santa Clara
County Specialized Enforcement Team and the Regional
Auto Theft Task Force.
E-mail Kevin Forestieri
at kforestieri@mv-voice.com

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treatment on Tuesday, June 24
at 1 p.m.
The ground fogging, which
will include spraying a fine
mist of pesticides, will be conducted in parts of Sunnyvale,
Mountain View, Los Altos
and Cupertino. The exact area
is bordered by Lynn Way,
Cambridge Avenue, Brookline
Drive and Hyde Park Drive on
the north; Tilton Drive and
Yukon Drive on the east; West
Homestead Road on the south;
and Alford Avenue, Park Hills
Avenue and Wessex Avenue on
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the west.
The fogging is expected to last
several hours, and is centered at
St. Mary and Fremont Avenues.
The fogging plans were
prompted by a confirmation on
June 17 from the Vector Control
District that adult mosquitoes in
the area tested positive for West
Nile virus, according to a press
release by the county Public
Affairs Office.
West Nile virus causes mild to
severe flu-like symptoms, like
fevers and aches, and in some
severe causes can cause neurological damage and death. The
elderly are most susceptible to

catching the virus, and since
2003, over 4,000 people have
contracted the disease in California. Of those cases, 145 were
fatal.
According to the manager
of the Vector Control District,
West Nile virus activity is very
high, and residents should avoid
mosquito bites throughout the
county.
Information packets will be
distributed Friday to notify residents in the fogging area. Staff
will be available to answer questions from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. via
phone at 800-314-2427.
—Kevin Forestieri

n an event at the Adobe building Monday night, Mountain
View residents spoke about
their struggles to find housing
and afford rising rents before an
expert provided some perspective on the recurring housing
shortage in the area.
Egon Terplan of SPUR, a San
Jose- and San Francisco-based
housing and tenant advocacy
group, was invited by a coalition of groups concerned with
Mountain View’s housing crisis.
“He is not parachuting in from
San Francisco to tell us what to
do and how to think,” said Adina
Levin of Friends of Caltrain, one
of the sponsors.
Other sponsors included the
Mountain View Chamber of
Commerce, the Mountain View
Coalition for Sustainable Planning, Peninsula Interfaith Action
and the Campaign for a Balanced
Mountain View. Though focused
on land use, the event was titled
“The Google Bus / Mountain
View connection — Housing
Affordability and Transit.”
In a city where just over 60
percent of residents are renters
facing continual rent increases,
emotions at the meeting ran
high.
Wendee Crofoot, a community activist and resident for
20 years, said her rent went up
$100 recently. “I have a feeling
it’s going to go up by about $300.
This is terrifying and I’m not
sure where I’ll go,” she said.
“A lot of my friends and colleagues have been taken aback by
this issue,” said a younger Google
employee named Jeremy, who
says he shares his apartment with
his Google-employed girlfriend.
“It never occurred to me that
people couldn’t live near their
work. I don’t want Mountain
View to become a place where
only dual Google incomes can
afford to live.”
“I hope to raise a family here
someday, but it is hard to put
down roots when everything is
so uncertain and there is all this
office space increasing with no
housing to back it up,” he said.
In the next decade the city
plans to authorize millions of
square feet of new office space
to house thousands of jobs, but
zoning allows for only a few
thousand homes.
A single mother named Anna
said she’s concerned that rent
hikes will soon force her out of
Mountain View after 15 years.
She said she works every day
and to pay higher rents, “I would
need to look for another job but
in reality I can’t do that because

I need to watch over my kids.”
One of her children has special
needs, she said. “She’s really close
to her school here, her teachers,
her psychologist, and she’s been
talking to her about this issue. It
would be really detrimental for
her to start from scratch.”
Marylin Signa, a resident of
the Moffett mobile home park,
said “We’re starting to wonder
is if this town is going to be a
place for all people or just the
most wealthy. We don’t necessarily want to be downsized and
stuffed into shoebox-sized housing either.”
Why is it becoming
so expensive?
As for why Mountain View
is becoming so expensive, “the
main answer is we don’t build
enough (housing), Terplan said,
adding that it should be no surprise that prices are growing rapidly given the number of people
wanting to move to Mountain
View and the Bay Area. And it
isn’t because there is a lack of
interest from developers. Terplan
pointed the finger at regulations

‘We’re starting to
wonder is if this
town is going to be
a place for all
people or just the
most wealthy.’
MARYLIN SIGNA

and restrictions. For example, he
said people in San Francisco have
become “experts” at restricting
housing supply, with voters and
residents often taking political
action against housing development, and the city of 825,000
has never built more than 2,000
homes a year despite explosive
tech job growth.
Terplan said the Bay Area
saw a huge amount of housing
development between 1950 and
1980. Projected to grow from 7
million to 9 million people by
2030, Terplan said the Bay Area
is undergoing a transformation
that hasn’t been seen since World
War II, after which housing was
built as if the American Dream
depended on it, and it did.
Terplan said that people in San
Francisco still argue that increasing housing supply will not lower
prices. “That’s still a debate in
San Francisco. People will get
up and say, ‘I’m not sure there’s a

relationship,’” he said.
Terplan presented a chart
which shows that the most
expensive communities in the
U.S. added relatively little housing since 1990. The worst offenders were the metro areas of San
Francisco, San Jose, Honolulu,
Orange County, Oakland and
New York, in that order. Those
metro areas, regions that extend
past city limits, saw fewer than 10
homes built every year per 1,000
existing homes, since 1990. And
prices were the highest at more
than $300 per square foot.
The places with the cheapest
and most plentiful new housing
built since 1990 are Las Vegas
followed by Raleigh, North
Carolina, then Atlanta and
Phoenix, in that order. Homes
in those cities cost less than $150
per square foot and since 1990,
those metro areas saw greater
housing development: between
30 and 72 homes built per 1000
existing homes.
“No metro that builds a lot
of housing is expensive,” writes
Jed Kolko, the chief economist
at the real estate website Trulia,
which originally posted the
graph. He concludes that it will
take many years of significant
housing growth to change housing prices in the most expensive
cities.
In recent years, some Bay Area
cities have been better at meeting
housing demand and Terplan
pointed to Dublin — called an
“urban suburb” by its mayor
— and San Jose as examples of
places allowing the most housing
to be built.
There are also solutions on a
smaller scale. In San Francisco,
there have been a few developments that have attempted to
make housing more affordable
by leaving out parking and
creating smaller units with
shared living room areas to
reduce construction costs in
a city where they are eye-popping — $469,000 to build an
800-square-foot unit in a 100unit building, Terplan said.
Rent control
After Terplan’s talk, the merits
of rent control were raised by
resident Edie Keating.
“That balance is not going to be
restored right away,” she said of
the area’s housing shortage. “The
problem isn’t which city you fall
in love with. It’s that you think
you can afford a place, then the
rents go up and you can’t afford
it. I see rent control as providing
that stability.”
She said she didn’t know
why anyone would oppose rent
control under the 1996 Costa

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This graph is said to prove a relationship between housing supply and
housing prices.

Hawkins Act, a state law which
has sharply weakened rent control laws by allowing landlords
— through “vacancy decontrol”
— to raise rents as high as they’d
like when tenants move out.
“Especially with vacancy decontrol, I don’t see the problem,”
Keating said.
The Costa Hawkins Act also
makes all housing units built
after February 1, 1995 exempt

from rent control. She said the
law needed to be reformed.
Terplan said there were no well
organized groups working to
expand renters rights on the state
level.
“The coalitions that care most
about rent control, they want to
preserve what they have without
(changing) any of it,” Terplan
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the impact of the replacing
office space with housing units.
Planning director Randy Tsuda
disagreed, saying such a modification might take six to seven
months if he were to “hazard a
guess.” Grehl said that estimate
was “optimistic.”
Merlone Geier may forgo phase
two entirely and instead build a
175,000 square-foot big-box retail
building along the the southern
half of the site, as approved by
the City Council a few years
ago — and the Ross and BevMo
buildings on the northern half
would remain, to be leased to new
tenants, Grehl said.
“As an investor and manager
of money for people (our goal) is
to mitigate risk and time,” Grehl
said, explaining why delays could
kill the project.
Citing a significant lack of
housing to accommodate job
growth from companies including Google, Samsung and LinkedIn, the Campaign for a Balanced
Mountain View wants to see the
pair of six-story office buildings
in the project replaced by housing. The group, which says it will
collect signatures for a referendum, says the office buildings
could add 2,000 employees to a
city which already has a housing
shortage and is suffering from
serious gentrification.
“If the current plan is not
stopped, then we’ll need well
over 2,000 new housing units
just to keep the jobs-housing
imbalance from getting worse,”
said Lenny Siegel, who is leading the Campaign for a Bal-

Milk Pail in jeopardy
While Milk Pail owner Steve
Rasmussen said he had not heard
from Merlone Geier since February, Grehl said Merlone Geier
continues to search for properties
that the Milk Pail could move to,
and hopes to line something up
before the July 1 meeting in order
to get Rasmussen’s support for
the project.
“The Milk Pail’s fate and Milk
Pail’s future are completely outside the hands of things in my
capacity to control.” Rasmussen
said Monday. “I continue to look
for alternative sites that the Milk
Pail could relocate to because
of the enormous uncertainty of
working with Merlone Geier. We
are at the end game and it has
come fast.”
Rasmussen is hoping to get the
City Council to require a shared
parking arrangement with Mer-

lone Geier, which the developer
continues to resist. Without it,
the Milk Pail will be forced to
shut down when its current parking agreement expires in 2016, as
it has only five parking spaces on
site, and needs 22 to meet city
requirements.
Rasmussen has hired lawyer
Joan R. Gallo, who recently wrote a
letter to city officials saying that “it
would be perfectly legal to require
parking adequate for the center to
function as a whole and require
that the developer make parking
available to the Milk Pail at fair
market value ... The decision not
to require that developer to make
parking available in this manner is
strictly a policy decision.”
Gallo points to several city
agreements with property owners
in the center that show precedent
for such requirements, including
one saying that property owners
must be willing to lease spaces to
adjacent owners at fair market
value. Because of his understanding of the agreements,
Rasmussen said in an email,
“When we did our very costly
remodel in 2007 that made our
store ‘like new’, I expected that
the likelihood that we would lose
our parking was very remote.”
Tsuda said that such agreements do not exempt the Milk
Pail from providing its required
amount of parking and City
Manager Dan Rich has said
it isn’t the city’s place to pick
winners and losers in a conflict
between two property owners.
If phase two does not go
through, Grehl said Merlone
Geier will not be extending the
agreement allowing Milk Pail
customers to use the Ross parking lot.
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Dear Caltrain Neighbor:
During the month of June, Caltrain will close the
Castro Street grade crossing in Mountain View, near
W. Evelyn Avenue. This closure will allow Caltrain to
perform maintenance work on both railroad tracks,
which will affect street traffic in your area. Work
includes surfacing (adding new ballast or rocks on
the right of way), realigning tracks and adding new
concrete panels to the pedestrian walkways.
The Castro Street grade crossing will be closed from
8 p.m. Friday, June 20, until Monday, June 23,
2014 at 4 a.m. During the closure, Caltrain will
establish detour routes and provide appropriate
signage for vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians to
help with traffic flow.
This work is being done in accordance with Caltrain
and City agreements and ordinances. We apologize
for any inconvenience this may cause you.
For more information, please call the Caltrain
Construction Outreach Hotline at
650.508.7726 or visit www.caltrain.com.
Castro Street Crossing Closure
Friday June 20 - Monday June 23

anced Mountain View.
The referendum wouldn’t be
cheap, it is likely to require a
special election next year costing the city $300,000, if residents
gather the 3,400 or so required
signatures.
The warning from Merlone
Geier did not deter Siegel.
“Merlone Geier is trying to
spin the consequences of a referendum campaign,” Siegel said.
“Like politicians, I expect them
to change their tune once the
voters have spoken.”
Grehl said there was another
possibility allowed under the
current EIR: replacing the seven-story hotel with a six-story
residential building with 150
units. Tsuda said that would also
require a six- to seven-month
long EIR modification.

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said. “A new coalition needs to
be formed among cities willing
to go to Sacramento.”
City’s new housing
As emotions ran high at the
meeting, City Council member
Ronit Bryant nearly lost her temper at one point. She was starting
to tell attendees how they could
be involved in developing three
“precise plans” — road maps for
development along El Camino
Real, in and around San Antonio
shopping center and the North
Bayshore area north of Highway
101. North Bayshore is the only
precise plan area where new residential zoning is not proposed, as
Bryant and three other council
members voted against it in 2012.
“Why no housing in North Bayshore?” shouted Doug Delong of
Advocates for Affordable Housing as Bryant began speaking.
“I’ll be really, really happy to
talk about it some more,” said
Bryant, raising her voice for a few
seconds. “I am really, really tired,
quite frankly, I don’t usually let
my temper get away from me, but
to think that the 1,100 units that
the businesses in North Bayshore
and the city were interested in
putting in North Bayshore —
that that would have resolved the
problems of the Bay Area, really
makes absolutely no sense.”
“We are putting a lot of housing on El Camino Real,” Bryant
said. “We have hundreds of units
coming in on El Camino.”
Earlier in the meeting, Terplan
pointed out that the city saw only
37 new homes actually built in
2013, though that doesn’t capture
the full picture. According to
a chart the Voice received from
Mountain View planning director
Randy Tsuda, Mountain View has
approved more than 2,300 housing units since 2009, while about
600 of those units have been part
of projects that have been abandoned by developers. This year
the city also identified areas where
zoning could allow 2,926 more
homes to be built by 2023.
It still appears that the approved
housing stock will be far less than
what is needed to accommodate
the city’s explosive development
of office buildings — over 6 million square feet is either being
built, proposed or expected to
be developed under new zoning — potentially bringing over
35,000 jobs to Mountain View by
2030. Mountain View had about
35,000 homes in 2009 and now
has nearly 70,000 jobs.
At one point, candidates for
City Council were asked to stand,
and Greg Unangst, Lisa Matichak, Ken Rosenberg, Jim Neal
and Margaret Capriles all stood
up. Someone demanded that
each one say whether they sup-

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Mountain View’s housing growth over the years.

ported rent control, but none of
the candidates stated a position.
Resident Patrick Marr urged
people to attend City Council
meetings and and counter the
opposition to housing projects
that is commonplace. As Terplan noted, opponents usually have similar concerns in
all Bay Area cities: traffic and
parking impacts, fears about
lowered property values, a desire
to preserve the character of
the neighborhood and fears
about inviting gentrification to
the neighborhood. Terplan said
housing projects are regularly
being trimmed back all over the
Bay Area to please such residents,
and the small losses add up.
“I have never seen a room filled
as much as this with speakers
advocating higher-density housing,” Marr said of what he’d
observed in City Council meetings. When housing projects are
scaled back in Mountain View
“it’s a case of five units here, 10
units there. Pretty soon you are
talking about real numbers.”
Resident Konrad Sosnow suggested that the city identify how
much housing it could reasonably
build and not allow office growth
that creates a jobs-housing ratio
of more than two jobs to every
home, which is about what the
city has now. He acknowledged
that a compromise could be
made with residents who wanted
the ratio closer to 1:1. Terplan
cautioned against a moratorium
on office development, saying it
could “backfire.”
A woman whose comments
received a lot of applause said her
family of five was facing eviction.
Speaking through a translator, she
said she could not find a new twobedroom apartment in Mountain
View because landlords were
requiring that she prove that her
family earned three times their
rent per month, equal to about
$6,000 a month for her, she said.
“Why do I have to prove to the
landlord that I can pay $6,000
when I know I can pay my rent?”
she asked. “It is unfair.”
She said landlords were now
evicting households who have to
squeeze more than two people in

a bedroom. “I know it is the law
that there can only be two people
per room but they didn’t enforce
it before. Now they are trying to
suffocate us,” she said.
“For me it was surprising to read
in the newspaper about a family
that worked at Google actually
complaining about the rents,” she
said, referring to a recent story in
the Voice. “Can you imagine then
how we live? We don’t live, we
survive, every day.”
“I don’t know what we are
going to do,” she said. “What is
happening here is inhumane.”
She added that she could not
comprehend how her family
is being pushed out of the city
but will then be asked to come
back to clean homes and do the
gardening and cooking for those
who are able to stay.
She thanked the white people
who came to the event, and congratulated the Google employee
who spoke, saying it was evidence that he had “a big heart.”
“Often when our community
speaks up we are not heard,” she
said. “Together with your voice we
can actually make an impact.”
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OFFICER THREATENED
Police arrested a Mountain View
man Sunday after he allegedly
drove past a barricade and into
pedestrians following a concert
at Shoreline Amphitheatre.
At around 10:23 p.m., 57-yearold Peter Obrien was stopped by
police officers when he drove
into the path of pedestrians after
a Lady Antebellum concert. The
man was suspected of driving
under the influence, according to
Sgt. Saul Jaeger of the Mountain
View Police Department.
Upon being arrested, Obrien
threatened to kill assisting officers when he was released from
jail. He was booked into San Jose
Main Jail on charges of threatening a police officer and driving
under the influence.
—Kevin Forestieri and
Bay City News Service

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dents away to a nearby, safe location. This could be someone’s
backyard or a nearby building.
Fleeing the campus means running as fast as possible from the
shooter, according to a presentation by the Santa Clara County
Police Chiefs Association.
If students cannot safely flee
the campus, the well-known
lockdown strategy is still in
effect. This includes locking and
barricading doors, lights turned
off and students sheltered behind
a secondary barricade. Lilga said
the police chiefs’ presentation
also suggested students wedge
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nizer. “Many priests, they do
what they need to do as priests,
but he goes beyond the churchly
duties and works to help people
out in any way he can.”
Moran had a larger than life
presence all evening as he greeted people in the crowd. The fact
that Moran is Irish didn’t hurt
his ability to earn the adoration of Mountain View’s largely
Latino and Filipino Catholic
community, where he plays the
role of the bald and beloved
Irish grandfather.
With a bit of humorous
hyperbole, longtime community organizer Elena Pacheco
called Moran “the numero uno
revolucionario” in the community, noting that Moran always
helps to organize the annual
May Day march for immigration reform in Mountain View.
At this year’s rally, former

they’re leaning against walls to
further protect themselves.
If the shooter enters the room,
the new strategy suggests teachers and students should “believe
that they should survive” and
defend themselves. This could
mean discharging a fire extinguisher at the intruder or throwing books and other objects in an
attempt to disrupt him or her.
The county police presentation
suggests students “commit to
their actions,” attack as aggressively as possible, improvise
weapons and make loud noises
to disorient the shooter.
Defending can mean different things depending on the
grade level. Because the policy is
designed for students from 5 to
14 years old, there is no “one size

Based on recent school shootings, students
taking shelter in a lockdown had a lower
rate of survival.
fits all” for how to react. Lilga
said it’s likely that kindergarteners will be told to just run if a
shooter makes it in. Eighth graders, on the other hand, might be
more capable of throwing books
or taking someone down.
The three-tiered response puts
more responsibility on teachers and faculty to assess the
situation and figure out the best
course of action, which means
they’ll need training. Lilga said
teachers, along with classified
staff like janitors and secretar-

ies, will have to go through
training seminars with local
police officers on the new plan
in the coming fall.
It also means a bad call could
put lives at risk, but Lilga said
that should not affect staff decisions. She said they are covered
by Good Samaritan laws, which
prevents people from being liable
for civil damages if they act in
good faith to help in emergency
situations.
Currently the district has no
plans to tell students about the

newly revised response. Lilga
said teacher input during staff
training will help determine
“age appropriate discussions”
that could be held with students. Students will continue
to practice lockdowns, which
the school has down for the last
eight or nine years.
Board trustee Chris Chiang
voiced concerns over whether
details for the revised response
should be openly released to the
public, which could benefit an
attacker. But the new strategy
was presented publicly by the
police chiefs and is available
online, and Lilga said there was
also local television coverage of
the change.
E-mail Kevin Forestieri
at kforestieri@mv-voice.com

Mountain View mayor and
state senator Sally Lieber said
Moran “has an Irish name but
a Latino heart.”
Lopez said that the heart of
the people’s respect for Moran
is his dedication to social justice.
“He is always trying help lowincome people, those who have
housing problems, unemployment problems, immigration
problems. He has worked for
immigration reform in any way
he can,” Lopez said, “There are
not many priests left like him.
That is why we love him so
much.”
Lopez said Moran’s original
mentor was Donald McDowell,
a priest who worked with Caesar Chavez in his struggle to
unionize farm workers in the
Central Valley.
Parishioner Liz Joves said
it will leave “a huge void”
when Moran is gone, especially
because he gets things done and
has been the glue keeping the

MICHELLE LE

Bob Moran is greeted as he walks into the celebration of his 50th anniversary of being ordained a priest.

Fr. Bob Moran speaks to parishioners at St. Joseph Church at a Mass
celebrating his 50 years of priesthood.

parish together.
Moran said he had moved
to a retirement community in
San Jose. Lopez said Moran
wouldn’t be able to be around
for the community in the
same way he had been all these
years.
People came from Arizona
and even Ireland to celebrate
with Moran.
“He’s more then a friend,
more like father, a grandfather
— a fun guy,” said Emmanuel
Mejia, who came from Mesa,
Arizona with his family to
celebrate with Moran, who has
visited them in Arizona, he
said.
Moran has also traveled to
Ireland, where his grandfather fought in the 1916 Easter
uprising against British rule of
the country, said Sister Mary
Delargy, who traveled from

Downpatrick in Northern Ireland to attend the weekend’s
celebrations for Moran. He has
a real interest in Irish history,
she said.
She recalled her initial
impression of him when they

always been very strong.”
St. Joseph School’s principal Stephanie Mirenda-Knight
spoke to the crowd Friday, saying Moran had been a part of
numerous school ceremonies,
graduations and of course took

‘There are not many priests left like him.
That is why we love him so much.’
JOB LOPEZ

first met years ago in Ireland:
“He didn’t make any distinction between professors and
ordinary people who worked
in the fields. He has a very
common touch for ordinary
people. He has a capacity to
make people feel welcome. His
interest in social justice has

confessions from many students. “You have been the heart
and the soul of this place for a
very long time,” she said.
In a prayer at Friday’s dinner,
Moran said, “May we always
realize that, as a family and
community, we can make a difference in each other’s lives,”

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was very successful at not only
changing how kids see their
environment, but also finding
ways for kids to adopt lifestyle
habits and act upon their newly
developed values.
Things got a little tricky for
McSherry when she started
teaching summer camp to a different age group. The curriculum
was designed for fourth and fifth
graders, and suddenly she found
herself teaching kindergarteners
and first graders.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids at 10 years might be more
analytical and scientific, but
environmental science is accessible to everyone,â&#x20AC;? McSherry
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all have a connection
to our environment.â&#x20AC;?
This week, students learned
about the rainforest, and how
it covers 7 percent of the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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ture also changed so that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
more expensive for anyone who
isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a YMCA member.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a convenient and
great program, but at this rate I
wonder if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth it,â&#x20AC;? Lin said.
Another parent, Jâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;lynn Lee,
said she only needs the program
on Thursdays, and two years
ago there was a one-day per
week option that was perfect for
parents like her. The YMCA has
since done away with the oneday option.
Lee said the steep, sudden
increase puts parents like her in
a difficult position. She said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

surface but holds 50 percent of all
life. McSherry taught them about
the different canopy layers, the
animals that live there and some
of the plants students might recognize â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like fruits.
Then students applied their
new-found knowledge to art
projects. They made paintings of
the floor, understory and canopy
layers of the rainforest. Then they
painted in all the wildlife, most
of which are in the understory
and canopy. They learn about
the bright colors of animals in
the rainforest that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see
here â&#x20AC;&#x201D; blue frogs, yellow butterflies. Through their paintings,
McSherry said kids can visualize
how much life is concentrated in
these rainforests.
Other times, the teaching and
art activity are one in the same.
McSherry said she and her students will listen to and even create music, mostly folk music, that

reflects the natural environment.
Students listen to songs from
New Zealand that use sounds
that imitate the ocean waves,
or percussion instruments that
sound like beetles. Sometimes
they play the instruments themselves, or McSherry will play
songs on the keyboard.
Through this, she said students
learn that indigenous people used
whatever was at their disposal in
the natural world to make music,
and were interconnected with
their environment.
McSherry said she focused on
this musical aspect of the course
when she taught in Monterey,
but started to incorporate more
visual arts when she moved her
lessons over to CSMA.
She said of the hardest things
about teaching the class is
telling kids as young as kindergarteners about negative
environmental impacts going

on around the world.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s super challenging to teach
them about the bad things going
on,â&#x20AC;? McSherry said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I teach
them that forests are being
burned down, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be worried that the forests they visit are
going to be burned down.â&#x20AC;?
So McSherry has a two-pronged
approach: explain negative things
in the least scary way and follow
it up with proactive solutions.
If she teaches kids about land
degradation, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll use images of
dry and cracked dirt rather than
dead animals to show the effect,
then tell students what they can
do to fix the problem.
These proactive solutions
include watching the use of electricity at home, picking up trash
and sending letters to people who
run palm oil businesses. Because
the kids are so young, McSherry
said they are the most impressionable and more likely to adopt

new behaviors.
McSherry said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never felt
compelled to go on a negative
rant about people destroying the
environment.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The kids are too sweet
and positive,â&#x20AC;? McSherry said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re willing and ready to be
empowered by what they learn.â&#x20AC;?
McSherry said she also takes
care not to push any sort of political agenda. She said she tries to
stay scientific, and none of what
she teaches is considered extreme
in the scientific community.
In the future, McSherry said
sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll continue to adapt her curriculum for Santa Clara County.
The local curriculum focuses on
building and designing tech solutions to solve problems. She said
this year sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to capitalize
on that problem-solver mentality
and do a project called â&#x20AC;&#x153;design
your own green techâ&#x20AC;? for kindergarteners.

hard to find a reliable babysitter to drive and work for the 10
hours of day care they need each
month, so the YMCA program
is the only feasible option. But
she said the cost increase is not
something many families can
afford right now.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The cost of living here in
Mountain View is already outrageous,â&#x20AC;? Lee said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many families have both parents working
outside the home to afford their
homes.â&#x20AC;?
Lee said many employers are
unwilling to allow employees to
leave work to pick up their kids.
Elizabeth Jordan, Chief Operations Officer at the YMCA of Silicon Valley, said they reviewed the
new prices and on Wednesday

decided to reduce it to a small,
incremental increase from last
year. Parents who sign up in two
days a week will pay $290 instead
of the original $471 price figure,
and parents who sign up for three
days a week will pay $399 instead
of $530.
The YMCA will send a letter
out to all parents who signed
up for after-school care last year
with the revised prices.
Jordan said when they originally
reworked the prices for the coming school year, they had no idea
it would affect parents so much.
They became aware of the problem last week when a parent contacted the YMCA with concerns
over the program new rates.
Part of the reason why the

prices went up is because the
program is essentially designed
to be a five-day-a-week program.
Jordan said when parents sign up
for two or three days per week,
their kids â&#x20AC;&#x153;take up a spotâ&#x20AC;? for the
entire week.
As a result, the fewer number
of days per week, the bigger the
fee hike for the coming school
year. Parents who enroll their
students in the program all five
days of the week saw a nominal
increase of about 6 percent.
Of the roughly 650 families
that participate in the program,
about 100 to 150 of them sign
up for either two or three days
a week. Jordan said that means
the YMCA of Silicon Valley has
subsidized these families who

participate for only part of the
week, and with the newly revised
prices will continue to subsidize
them through next year.
Jordan said subsidizing these
parents will cost an estimated
$170,000 next year.
Lin said she received a response
from the YMCA that said market
research shows the new prices are
comparable to what similar program charge. The response also
stated that the program must pay
for staffing and programming
for five days per student, regardless of how many days per week
parents sign up for.
But Jordan said the YMCA
after-school program is not like
other programs on the market.
She said theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not looking to
turn a profit, and do not set
prices based on similar day care
programs.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t compare ourselves
to other â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;market prices.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; We
are a community-based not-forprofit,â&#x20AC;? Jordan said.
The outrage and subsequent
price changes may be a problem of communication. On one
hand, parents felt there was little
communication from YMCA
regarding the price hike. On the
other hand, Jordan said there was
very little communication from
parents that indicated the new
prices were too high to handle.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just heard it through the
grapevine and from (the Voice).
We only recently had a parent
come out and tell us other parents are upset,â&#x20AC;? Jordan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
challenging not knowing who to
communicate to.â&#x20AC;?
Jordan said in addition to the
subsidies, there is financial
assistance available for people
who have trouble paying for the
services. YMCA of Silicon Valley
has awarded $236,000 in financial assistance through scholarships to Mountain View.

ast week, the City Council agreed to throw the controversial question of a pay raise to the voters, a move that caps
a discussion started in November about whether a higher
wage would attract â&#x20AC;&#x153;workingâ&#x20AC;? residents to run for council.
Ultimately, the move for something closer to a living wage
failed, leaving a watered-down raise from $600 to $1,000 a
month up to voters, with a built-in cost of living allowance,
based either on the consumer price index or city employee cost
of living adjustments. If council members spend an average of
30 hours a week on city business, as four members told the Voice
they do, they will earn $8.33 an hour, which will be less than the
stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minimum wage when it is raised from $8 to $9 on July 1.
The pay raise measure will appear on the November ballot,
along with a final list of people running for three open council
seats. A ballot measure passed in 1984 prevents the council from
simply taking a vote on a pay raise, forcing members to send
such a proposal to the voters.
The 1984 vote also set the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s salary at $500 a month,
which in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dollars would be worth $1,137. This led member Mike Kasperzak to say $1,000 a month is simply restoring
what the voters already approved. In his opinion, the council has
gotten an annual decrease in pay, as the buying power of their
monthly $600 is eaten away by inflation.
The council has also heard from some residents who believe that
serving on a public body is a privilege and should not be more or
less attractive based on compensation. Others were opposed to the
near doubling of council pay, from $7,200 a year at $600 a month
to $12,000 a year if the voters approve $1,000 a month.
Few, if any, members of the current council could be said
to rely on the council salary. Mayor Chris Clark is a business
executive, John McAllister and Mike Kasperzak own businesses,
John Inks and Jac Siegel are retired business executives and Bry-

ant and Margaret Abe-Koga are supported by their spouses. In
April Ronit Bryant said she â&#x20AC;&#x153;lost a lot of moneyâ&#x20AC;? by giving up
work as a technical writer to serve on the council.
It is not likely that $1,000 a month will make any difference
in the make-up of the council in the years ahead. A stipend of
$1,000 is more than pocket change, but compared to the income
of the current council members and their families, it would not
be a significant percentage.
Except for Sunnyvale, which pays council members almost
$2,000 a month, other cities of similar size in the area pay council members less than $1,000-a-month. Palo Alto and Campbell
currently pay about the same as Mountain Viewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $600 a month,
although Palo Alto is considering its own raise to $1,000 a month.
Los Altos, Morgan Hill, Saratoga, Los Gatos and Los Altos
Hills pay $300 a month or less. In addition to Sunnyvale, those
paying slightly more are Cupertino, Santa Clara, Milpitas and
Gilroy. San Jose pays $10,583 a month, reflecting its status as the
largest city in the Bay Area.
Another way to view compensation is to consider the council
as a low-paid board of directors who set policy and oversee an
executive branch made up of highly-paid professionals. The city
manager, who is paid $250,000 a year, and his top staff, many of
whom earn well over $100,000 a year, are at the top of a team of
more than 600 employees, and oversee a general fund budget of
nearly $100 million, which must be approved every year by the
citizen-city council.
When considering who to elect and how much to pay the citizens who are responsible to the voters for keeping the city running on an even keel, it might be appropriate to consider candidates from all walks of life, not just those who have a successful
record in business or technology. And if a higher salary will help
attract such candidates, it probably will be worth it.
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If the City Council wants
a pay raise, tell them to ask
Google, Linked In, Sobrato,
Merlone Geier Partners and
all the other large corporations
and special interests to which
they kowtow to foot the bill.
Corporations are not people
and as a real live person and
long time resident of Mountain View I am tired of being
ignored. I, for one, am certainly not going to vote for
any pay raise. In addition, any
incumbent will not warrant
my vote. I encourage all the
real live citizens of Mountain
View to join me in protesting
the plutocracy the council has
created.
Kay Ritchey
Space Park Way

We need to face the fact that
$440,000 one-story, single family homes and $2,500 per month,
three-bedroom apartments, are
part of Mountain Viewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history
and will not occur again.
We do need more housing, but
how much is enough? Some will
say we need one additional residence for each new job (13,000 for
LinkedIn and 15,000 to 20,000
for Google). Others would prefer
things as they are. Somewhere
between is the solution. No one
will be overjoyed with the result,
but we can achieve a compromise
that we all can live with.
We need a Light Rail connection from the downtown transit
center to North Bayshore. That
way, residents of other communities can take Caltrain and Light
Rail. Soon, East Bay residents

could take BART and Light Rail.
This need is obvious.
Limit office construction. We
canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t add three new offices for
every new residence. Housing
prices and traffic will continue

to go skyward.
The only sane way forward is
through accepting reality and
forming compromises.
Konrad Sosnow
Trophy Drive

he food was mighty
impressive. Bold, expressive flavors without the
mask of over-saucing, overcheesing, or overcooking. Textures and flavors were beautifully balanced, ingredients spoke
for themselves.
My visits to Lure + Till, the
snazzy restaurant tucked into
the side of the newish Epiphany
Hotel, didn’t start off well. On a
gorgeous evening, having made
an advance reservation, we were
ushered to a back corner table.
We didn’t merit one of the patio
seats that line the Hamilton
Avenue side of the restaurant.

Understandably, someone has
to occupy those seats when the
restaurant is busy. Nonetheless,
the younger couple that walked
in ahead of us had no reservation but were seated on the lovely
indoor/outdoor patio. On this
visit we were cornered by tables
of booming baritone young men
who were enjoying themselves.
Sporadic roar after crackling
bellow, the restaurant was loud.
We couldn’t make head nor tail
out of what the waiter said. Nor
he, us. We ordered the quail
salad and were delivered the kale
salad. When he poured the wine
for me to taste, I noticed that

the glass was filthy. He brought
another but failed to take away
the soiled one until the entrees
arrived. He also forgot his corkscrew on the table. Little things,
but I expected better attention to
detail in this upscale operation.
Executive Chef Patrick Kelley
previously cooked at Mediterranean-themed Gitane in San
Francisco and French-inspired
Angele in Napa. Lure + Till is
all-American, though, with nods
to European technique.
The interior of the 80-seat
restaurant and bar is simplicity
chic. There are floor-to-ceiling
windows that open to form the

The roasted beet salad at Lure + Till in the Epiphany Hotel in downtown Palo Alto.

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Desserts, including this chocolate mousse, are all $8 at Lure + Till.

half-in, half-out patio, a sleek
but fully stocked bar, baretopped tables, and artistic wood
and metal elements. The corner
where I was seated was so dark
I had to hold the menu shoulder
high to gather enough light to
read.
For appetizers, the flatbread
($12) was large enough to share.
Flatbread was a slight misnomer,
as it was thicker than traditional
flatbread, more akin to pita
bread. It was tasty, though, and

the romesco, fennel and dill, and
fire-roasted eggplant spreads
were creamy and appetizing.
Another fun starter was the
deviled eggs, (three for $5) with
chives and shallots, mustard and
aioli. The eggs were creamy and
soothing with a slight bite to
them.
Despite not ordering the dinner-size kale salad ($12), we kept
it. The salad was tossed with currents, ricotta salata (moist, fresh
cheese with a salty, milky, nutty

Cobia, also called lemonfish or ling, is crusted with mushrooms.

flavor), toasted almonds and a
delicious Banyuls vinaigrette.
Banyuls is an aged French savory
vinegar.
The California quail ($16)
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d intended to order, secured
on a subsequent visit, was worth
the protracted wait. The official
state bird was crisp and meaty,
served with morel mushrooms,
asparagus and radish wedges.
Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share this plate.
The restaurant offered three
pasta dishes. I tried two. The

tagliarini ($14) with hen jus
(roasting juices), a slow-cooked
egg and turnip was lush and gratifying. The pasta was a vibrant
yellow, with the egg bound in the
turnip.
The mafalde ($15) was mouthwatering with pancetta Bolognese sauceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; a simple dish,
perfectly wrought. The pasta was
made in-house and nothing beats
fresh-made pasta.
Main courses were not disappointing. I went meatless with

the most excellent fire-roasted
farro risotto ($20) with crispy
kale, roasted kohlrabi, sage and
egg yolk.
Crispy skinned orata ($26),
also known as sea bream or
dourada, was fresh-tasting and
flaky. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most popular
Mediterranean fish. Here, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
served with Manila clams, baby
artichokes, cocoa beans and
spring onion.
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Organic chicken ($23) was
compressed white and dark meat
with barley, Bloomsdale spinach,
fresh peas and a hint of garlic.
The chicken was succulent and
satisfying. It was a large portion
that I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t finish.
I thought the chicken was the
restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best dish until I tried
the roasted duck breast ($32).
Two fat pieces; juicy, pink and
ambrosial. The accompaniments
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t follow the menu script
of sunchokes and charred baby
leeks. Instead, rhubarb, kohlrabi,
cherries, string beans, wax beans

contrived an excellent cocktail
menu of refreshing summery
melanges that paired well with
the food. The well-conceived
wine list was an international
affair, a tad on the pricy side, but
the wines were a cut above.
After the initial snafus, ser-

vice was attentive and the staff
knowledgeable.
The front of the house still
needs fine tuning and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
know what to suggest about the
noise wave that sloshes around
the back walls. As for the kitchen,
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the best in the area.
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Jersey Boys
--1/2
(Century 16, Century 20)
Let’s face it: “Jersey Boys”
has never been high art. The
wildly successful jukebox musical about Frankie Valli and the
Four Seasons ran on chart-topping hit songs and ample corny
shtick in nominally telling the
story of the beloved pop act.
Now, it’s all been folded into
a Clint Eastwood film that’s
neither theatrical fish nor cinematic foul.
John Lloyd Young reprises
his Tony-winning role as Valli,
the boy with the golden whiny
falsetto and the friends who
are “bad influences.” Local
tough Tommy DeVito (Vincent
Piazza) first ropes sixteenyear-old Frankie into a crime
(though Valli narrowly escapes
the “revolving door” of prison)
and then into performing with
Tommy’s band. When Bob
Gaudio (Erich Bergen) comes
along with a head for musicianship and business, the act
reaches a new level. Soon, the
Four Seasons — rounded out
by Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda) — are a sensation.
The film, scripted by “Jersey
Boys” playwrights Marshall
Brickman (“Annie Hall”) and
Rick Elice, retains much of
the play in alternating musical numbers “December, 1963
(Oh, What a Night),” “Sherry,”
“Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk
Like a Man,” “Can’t Take My
Eyes Off of You” from the
group’s deep bench and compacted drama that strives for
efficiency in explaining the
band’s origins, challenges, and
resolution (such as it is) in the
1990 Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame reunion.
On the whole, this results
in a “Greatest Hits” gloss both
with the music and the drama.
Literalized on film, the theatrical reduction of the band’s story
has an anemic cast, as does the
bleached photography of East-

wood’s go-to cinematographer
Tom Stern. The film is least
interesting when it feels like
an impressionist’s act complete
with put-on mook accents and
more interesting when it captures the dynamics of a group
with strong egos and competing concerns. The inevitable
“group argument” scenes —
one refereed by Joe Pesci (Joey
Russo) (the “Goodfellas” actor
grew up with the Four Seasons
guys) and the other by reallife mobster “Gyp” DeCarlo
(Christopher Walken) — offer
the clearest signs of life.
It’s all rather square, with
Valli characterized as effectively saintly, other than leaving his daughter in the care
of an alcoholic “ex,” which
gives an opportunity for scenes
of redemption and tragedy.
Indeed, he’s waggishly dubbed
“Saint Francis.” The big idea
here is that it’s quite something
how the Four Seasons had loose
mob ties and a criminal record,
but that turns out to be a nonstarter in dramatic terms. More
useful are the competing takes
of each of the Four Seasons,
afforded in monologues spoken directly to the camera and
creating a light “Rashomon”
effect.
Lovers of “Jersey Boys” and
its music will no doubt appreciate the film, which benefits
especially from the practiced
performances of Young, Bergen, and Lomenda, all veterans
of the stage play. It’s unclear
whether the corny gloss of the
play would have worked any
better than Clint’s lower-key
grasp at realism (probably not),
but there’s a palpable release
when Eastwood stages one of
those full-cast curtain calls
under the closing titles. No
movie can’t be improved by
Christopher Walken doing a
shuffle.
Rated R for language throughout. Two hours, 14 minutes.
— Peter Canavese

N MOVIETIMES

Obvious Child
--1/2
(Guild) Aside from every
indie rom-com filmmaker’s
well-judged affinity for Paul
Simon, the title of “Obvious
Child” refers to its heroine,
another protagonist suffering
from severely arrested development. What makes “Obvious
Child” different is that this
protagonist is a woman saddled
with an unwanted pregnancy:
yep, another “obvious child.”
When in trouble, wineswilling New York stand-up
comic Donna Stern (Jenny
Slate) habitually crawls into
the arms of her best friend Nellie (Gaby Hoffmann, always
welcome) and her gay friend
and colleague Joey (Gabe Liedman), or back into the cradle
of her warmly funny and supportive dad (Richard Kind)
or her micro-managing but
loving mother (Polly Draper).
So when a nice-but-square onenight stand Max (Jake Lacy)
unwittingly knocks up Donna,
her trips around her circuit of
support intensify. But for all
the advice in the world, this is a
problem only a woman, herself,
can solve, which forces Donna
kicking and screaming into a
stronger sense of self.
That’s all well and good,
and “Obvious Child” deserves
credit for being just what it
is: an urban romantic comedy that deals matter-of-factly
with the truthful situations of
pregnancy and abortion (as
opposed to the usual contrived
crises that bear no resemblance
to reality). And it’s terrific to
see Slate own a film in the starring role (she most recently has
acquitted herself well as the
horrific Mona-Lisa Saperstein
on “Parks and Recreation”).
But “Obvious Child” is one of
those pictures that’s just good
enough to make you dearly
wish it were better.
Director Gillian Robespierre
announces her lack of preciousness or pretension by laying fart
sounds under her credit, but
too often in the film she resorts
to fart jokes and diaper jokes.
In one case, Robespierre gives
up on writing a snappy ending
to a scene, instead just having
a character step in a pile of
dog doo to end a conversation.
Hilarity does not ensue.
“Obvious Child” has a pleasantly prevailing wryness (Donna must schedule her abortion for Valentine’s Day), but
few quality jokes (least of all
in Donna’s stand-up comedy,
which at its best feels like a
weak-tea knockoff of Sarah SilContinued on next page

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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR
DRAGON 2 --A good children’s film doesn’t talk down
to kids; it tells a story that’s palatable to
adults, while serving as training wheels
for kids to move on to yet more challenging fare. The animated adventure “How
to Train Your Dragon 2” fits this bill.
Five years have passed since the events
of 2010’s “How to Train Your Dragon,”
in which inventive 15-year-old Hiccup
(Jay Baruchel) waged peace between his
Viking village of Berk and dragonkind,
represented by Toothless. Hiccup and
Toothless are still joined at the hip, practicing new flying stunts as they explore and
map outlying regions. Hiccup still faces
pressure from dad Stoick (Gerard Butler),
who lovingly wishes for his son to become
chief. Then trouble arrives — in the form
of dragon trappers who don’t share
Berk’s enlightened view of living with the
fire-breathers. Pompous, all-bark-no-bite
Eret (Desmond Harrington) turns out to
be merely a lackey to the fearsome Drago
Bludvist (Djimon Hounsou), who has history with Stoick. The bigger shock comes
when Hiccup discovers a hidden dragon
sanctuary watched over by someone
with even more significant history with
Hiccup’s family: the guarded Valka (Cate
Blanchett). Hiccup again casts himself in
the role of peacemaker, now protecting a
hard-earned new way of life, but can war
be averted if people won’t come to terms?
As with the previous installment, the film

functions as a coming-of-age story, with
this chapter focused on earning leadership
and loyalty through earnest self-improvement. DreamWorks Animation ups the
ante visually (under the sharp direction of
Dean DeBlois, who also penned the script).
The flight scenes are truly wondrous, especially the quieter ones — though scenes
of dragon races and high-flying battle
are certainly spectacular. The character
acting has also leaped and bounded over
the uncanny valley, helping this sequel
to be surprisingly emotional. Rated PG
for adventure action and some mild rude
humor. One hour, 42 minutes. — P.C.

22 JUMP STREET -Bound to be a love-it-or-hate-it affair, “22
Jump Street” delivers on the threat made
by its predecessor: to transplant narcs
Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing
Tatum) from high school to college. Deputy
Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman) lays down the
groundwork about where the first movie
has been and how this one will re-tread
it with more money. And so it’s off to 22
Jump Street, a pricier, bigger if not necessarily better undercover HQ right across
the street from 21 Jump Street. There,
Dickson dispatches the decidedly overgrown boys to Metro City State College to
track the source of a dangerous new drug
called “Whyphy.” Again, school life has a
way of driving a wedge between Jenko,
a blissful jock, and squat, sharp-tongued
Schmidt, who nevertheless somehow
pulls off a hookup with a girl named
Maya (Amber Stevens). For his part, Jenko
“hooks up” with a football bro named
Zook (Wyatt Russell) who just may be
implicated in the drug ring. The crime plot
proves even more halfhearted this time
around, except as a self-conscious excuse

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for vehicular chases, gunfights and explosions. Making fun of having more money
to do the same old shiznit isn’t a new idea,
and once the movie has slapped itself on
the wrist a few times, it has nowhere to
go except to be what it disdains: a pointless money-grabber. Instead of pursuing
edgier material, the picture is content to
go through the motions of football practice, a frat initiation and a big finale at
Spring Break in Puerto, Mexico. If there’s
a saving grace here, it’s revisiting the oddcouple chemistry of Hill and Tatum. Still,
“22 Jump Street” can wink all it wants,
identifying its own cliches as it succumbs
to them, but the movie is still contemptuous of its audience. At least the end credits
sequence shoots any sequel potential in
the foot — we hope. Rated R for language
throughout, sexual content, drug material,
brief nudity and some violence. One hour,
52 minutes. — P.C.

EDGE OF TOMORROW
--The new sci-fi action movie “Edge of
Tomorrow” uses the narrative structure
of a video game to present a “what-if”
scenario: What if we could keep pressing
“start” every time we fail?
That’s a fantasy that’s been explored
before in works like David Ives’ “Sure
Thing” and Harold Ramis’ “Groundhog
Day.” “Edge of Tomorrow” — based on
Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s light novel “All You
Need Is Kill” — doesn’t have anything
new to contribute, but it’s a good fit,
resulting in an eye-popping futuristic war
story with a clever (to a point) structure.
Tom Cruise stars as Major William Cage
of U.S. Army Media Relations. With Earth
losing a war to powerful tentacular,
mouth-glowing aliens, Cage is content

being just shy of a draft dodger, with little
more than never-applied ROTC training
to fall back on should he find himself in
combat. And he does when he ticks off
General Brigham (Brendan Gleeson), gets
busted down to private and winds up on a
suicide mission. Cruise nicely plays Cage’s
anti-heroic freak-outs, which stoke a rooting interest in his surviving long enough
to redeem himself. In a sequence recalling
D-Day, the Army lands on the West Coast
of France and proceeds to get slaughtered
by the aliens. But when Cage gets facefried with alien goop, he reawakens with
a start a day before the battle. As he
repeatedly relives the day, he eventually
discovers that Special Forces soldier Rita
Vrataski (Emily Blunt) holds the key to the
mystery of what’s happening to him, and
that they may be the only two people who
can save humanity. The acting is expectedly solid (Bill Paxton has fun with the
role of Cage’s befuddled master sergeant),
and thanks to director Doug Liman (“The
Bourne Identity”), the battle sequences
are rip-roaring. It’s all a bit wearying by
the home stretch, with a resolution that
only sort of makes sense. But it’s summer,
and we’re not supposed to think too much
at the movies. Rated PG-13 for intense
sequences of sci-fi action and violence,
language and brief suggestive material.
One hour, 53 minutes. — P.C.

MOVIE OPENINGS
Continued from page 21

verman). The picture, based on
a short directed by Robespierre
and starring Slate, can also be
eye-rollingly obvious, as in the

packing scene in which Donna
chooses to literally put herself
in a box.
Of course, by daring to tackle
the culturally radioactive issue of
abortion, “Obvious Child” also
acquiesces that it’s not going to
please everyone, and that’s okay.
Donna’s choices will naturally be
divisive, both on the question of
reproductive choice and how she
fumbles her emotional responses
to her situations and her lingering relationship with the sweetly
clueless father.
The biggest potential problem
for audiences may not so much be
the narcissistic protagonist who
at times displays hateful behavior
(most notably passive-aggressive
public use of her stand-up to
hide behind when delivering
difficult personal news) as the
film’s implicit endorsement of
that behavior as “girls will be
girls” excusable without so much
as an apology to those Donna
childishly and selfishly exploits
or hurts.
Or maybe that’s just me. At
any rate, Robespierre has conceived something you don’t see
every day: a feminist rom-com
that unapologetically allows its
flawed protagonist to let it all
hang out. As such, “Obvious
Child” makes a solid choice.
Rated R for language and sexual
content. One hour, 24 minutes.

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ART GALLERIES
‘From Burma to Myanmar’ Foothill College
will host a photography exhibit entitled “From
Burma to Myanmar: Portrait of a country in transition” with the work of many photographers. May
15-June 21, center hours. Free. Krause Center
for Innovation Gallery, Foothill College, Building
4000, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills.
Call 650-949-7082. FromBurmaToMyanmar.
wordpress.com

COMMUNITY EVENTS
‘Growing a Living Classroom’ This event
will share the experiences of Mountain View students who are learning about the world through
gardening. It will begin with a talk at the library,
followed by a walk to Mariano Castro Elementary
School and a tour of its garden. June 21, 11:30
a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library,
585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-5267020. goo.gl/pyPWCT
Conversation about death The Bay Area
Funeral Consumers Alliance will sponsor a discussion about fears, concerns and wishes surrounding death. The program is funded by a grant from
the Los Altos Community Foundation. Refreshments will be served. June 28, 10:30 a.m.-12:30
p.m. Free. Los Altos Public Library, Program Room,
13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. Call 650-4244427. fcapeninsula.org
ESL Conversation Club Those learning or
improving English are invited to come practice
at club meetings with casual conversation and
friendly company. All levels are welcome; no
registration required. Wednesdays, year-round,
5-6 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585
Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-526-7020.
www.mountainview.gov/depts/library/default.asp
Foothill College Commencement
Ceremony The 54th annual Foothill College
Commencement Ceremony will feature the graduation of more than 900 students. Tickets are not
required, and event parking is free. Guest seating
is first come, first served. June 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Free. Foothill College, Library Quad, 12345 El
Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. Call 650-949-7282.
www.foothill.edu/programs/graduation.php
Kids’ Fun Run at Summer Scamper The
fourth annual Summer Scamper, which benefits

the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford,
will include a kids’ fun run at Cobb Track near the
Family Festival. See website to register. June 22,
9:30 a.m. $15. Cobb Track, Stanford Unviersity,
295 Galvez St., Stanford. www.summerscamper.
org
linkAges TimeBanking orientation linkAges will give a talk on TimeBanking, a system
of currency in which individuals earn one credit
for each hour of help they give. It is designed to
help people learn a new skill, assist a neighbor or
person in need, and generally connect with others. June 25, 1-2 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public
Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call
650-934-3556. timebank.linkages.org
See Spot Work: Police Dog Officer Hansen
and Odin, a Mountain View police dog, will give
a demonstration on how these dogs help the
police force in their work. June 28, 11 a.m.-noon.
Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin
St., Mountain View. Call 650-526-7020. goo.gl/
L3YGJ7
Sew Sew Saturday The library invites community members to come sew on Saturday
mornings; four Baby Lock (Grace model) sewing
machines and one serger are available for use.
Please register on the website. No instruction will
be provided. Saturdays, year-round, 10:15-11 a.m.
Free. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin
St., Mountain View. Call 650-903-6337. www.
mountainview.gov/depts/library/default.asp
Thursday Night Live Castro Street between
California Street and Evelyn Avenue will be closed
to traffic for Thursday Night Live, where there will
be dining, shopping, children’s activities, a farmers’ market, live music and a car show. June 26,
5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Downtown Mountain View,
Castro Street, Mountain View. Call 650-9036331. www.mountainview.gov/depts/cs/events/
thursdaynightlive.asp

EXHIBITS
‘Stonewalled in Jerusalem’ Santa Cruz
mixed media artist Sara Friedlander will have on
display her visually arresting and socially focused
artwork, which contemplates the Israeli/Palestin-

N HIGHLIGHT
FIRST FESTIVAL OF FRENCH CLASSICAL MUSIC
Alliance Francaise of Silicon Valley has organized two nights of French classical
music: the San Francisco Ensemble with “Une Soiree Parisienne” and four soloists
with “Musique de Chambre Virtuose.” Pieces to be performed will include
works by composers Ravel, Poulenc and Faure. June 20 and 21, 8 p.m. $20-$50.
Community School of Music and Arts, Tateuchi Hall, 230 San Antonio Circle,
Mountain View. www.frenchmusicfestival.org

FAMILY AND KIDS
Youth Studio Production Camp This
summer KMVT 15 will hold week-long camps
for students ages 10 to 14, where students can
use professional studio equipment to gain skills
in camera work, directing, sound design, acting
and producing. By the end of each camp, students
will have produced segments which will be
broadcast on cable Channel 15. Monday-Friday,
June 9-August 15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $369. KMVT
15 Community Television, 1400 Terra Bella Ave.,
Suite M, Mountain View. Call 650-968-1540.
www.kmvt15.org

FILM
Hidden Villa Film Series: ‘Soul of Justice’ Local nonprofit Hidden Villa will hold a film
series this summer, featuring films that center on
both local and international agents of change. The
first film, “Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson’s
American Journey” will be screened at this event,
with a potluck and Q&A with the filmmaker
to follow. June 29, 5-7:30 p.m. Free. Hidden
Villa, 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. Call
650-949-9702. www.hiddenvilla.org/programs/
public-programs/duveneck-forum

ON STAGE
‘Company’ The Los Altos Stage Company will
perform the Steven Sondheim musical “Company.” The story follows Bobby as he experiences
difficulty committing to a long-term relationship.
May 29-June 28, 8 p.m. $18-$36. Bus Barn
Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Call 650-9410551. www.losaltosstage.org
‘Godspell’ Mountain View High School Choir
Department will put on three performances of
“Godspell” by Stephen Schwartz, set in San
Francisco in 1975. The production features the
modern, updated score. Attendees are encouraged to bring non-perishable food donations to
help build a city skyline and support Second Harvest Food Bank. June 26, 7:30 p.m.; June 27 and
28, 8 p.m. $15 general; $10 youth; $2 infants (0-2
years old). Mountain View High School, Spartan
Theatre, 3535 Truman Ave., Mountain View. Call
650-940-4649.
‘Marry Me a Little’ TheatreWorks will present a production of “Marry Me a Little,” a tale of
love and possibility by musical master Stephen
Sondheim. Tuesday-Sunday, June 4-29, 8-11 p.m.
$19-$73. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. Call
650-463-1960. www.theatreworks.org

SENIORS
Dementia care lecture David Troxel, an
expert on dementia care, and a panel will participate in a discussion called “What now? Steps to
take after the diagnosis of dementia” at the new
Health Center at The Terraces of Los Altos. June
21, 10:00 a.m.-noon. Free. The Terraces of Los
Altos, 373 Pine Lane, Los Altos. www.abhow.
com/tlagrove.
Heat exposure lecture Emergency medical
technicians will give a lecture on the dangers of
too much sun exposure, the signs of heat exhaustion and how to keep cool. June 26, 1-2 p.m. Free.
Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave.,
Mountain View. www.mountainview.gov/depts/
cs/rec/senior/default.asp

SPECIAL EVENTS
Palo Alto University graduation Palo
Alto University will hold a graduation ceremony
for its students receiving bachelor’s and master’s
degrees. The event will be led by Provost Dr. Wil-

SPORTS
Mountain View Tennis Club tennis
tournament The Mountain View Tennis Club
will hold a one-day mixed doubles tournament
at Rengstorff Park, open to both club members
and the local community. Entry deadline is June
18 at 6 p.m. See website for details. June 21,
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $15 MVTC members; $20
nonmembers. Rengstorff Park, 201 S. Rengstorff
Ave., Mountain View. mvtc.net

LECTURES & TALKS
‘Disrupting Automotive Transportation: The Road Ahead’ This program will
bring together four speakers close to the industry
to discuss how automotive transportation will
transform over the next 10 years. June 23,
5:30-8:30 p.m. $54 Churchill Club member; $79
nonmember. Computer History Museum, 1401
N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. Call 408-2650130. transition.churchillclub.org/eventDetail.
jsp?EVT_ID=1016
Astronomy for Everyone Astronomer Kevin
Manning, a former consultant for NASA, will
share his passion for the field. He will elaborate
on the universe’s size and scale, the stars and
other topics using hands-on activities and visual
representations. June 20, 7-9 p.m. Free. Los Altos
Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. www.
sccl.org

VOLUNTEERS
Silicon Valley Tour de Coop preparation
Neighbors Helping Neighbors will hold a variety
of volunteer activities leading up to and during the
Silicon Valley Tour de Coop, a bike ride between
chicken coops and home gardens on September
21. Volunteer opportunities include putting up
fliers and posters, doing test bike rides, organizing
other small events to spread the word and staffing
stop locations on tour day. The organization is
also looking for community members with chicken
coops, beehives and home gardens to host stops.
June-September, dates and times vary. Free.
Neighbors Helping Neighbors events, various
nearby locations, Palo Alto and Mountain View.
Call 650-283-0270. tourdecoop.org

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995 Fictitious Name
Statement
SERENITY EXECUTIVE RENTALS
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 592085
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Serenity Executive Rentals, located
at 1712 Kimberly Dr., Sunnyvale, CA
94087, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: A Limited
Liability Company.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
PILLOW OF WINDS, LLC
1712 Kimberly Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 04/19/2014.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on May 15, 2014.
(MVV May 30, June 6, 13, 20, 2014)
ROLFING TRAIL
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 592130
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Rolfing Trail, located at 1125 Burgoyne
St., Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
MEIKE GRUNDMANN
1125 Burgoyne St.
Mountain View, CA 94043
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 05/01/2014.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on May 16, 2014.
(MVV June 6, 13, 20, 27, 2014)
TERRAIN BIOMETRICS
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 593055
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Terrain Biometrics, located at 675
Campbell Technology Parkway,
Campbell, CA 95008, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by: A
Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
AOptix Technologies, Inc.
675 Campbell Technology Pkwy.
Campbell, CA 95008
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business

name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 11, 2014.
(MVV June 20, 27, July 4, 11, 2014)
SONGGOTU INTERNATIONAL
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 593102
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Songgotu International, located at 2005
West Middlefield Rd. Apt. #2, Mountain
View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
JIANDU WEN
2005 West Middlefield Rd.
Apt. #2
Mountain View, CA 94043
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 13, 2014.
(MVV June 20, 27, July 4, 11, 2014)
CUSTOM CLEAR BRA
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 592893
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Custom Clear Bra, located at 151
East Evelyn Ave #I, Mountain View, CA
94041, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
WILLIAM WORTZ
151 East Evelyn Ave. #I
Mountain View, CA 94041
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 6/6/14.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 6, 2014.
(MVV June 20, 27, July 4, 11, 2014)

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